Tanner Family: July 2010

We spent the last weekend in Colorado and as always, had a lot of fun, especially the kids - their Grandparents like to spoil them.

Courtney let James spend the night with her and he loved that he is old enough to do this.

We took some pictures of the kids, I can't figure out how to take a great picture, they were in the shade for these pictures, so their eyes were open.

...but in the sun for this picture - better picture, but hard not to squint.

This is where Grandma works and I thought this was a good picture of all of them.

Enjoying the front yard.

We went to see lots of movies, went out to eat, went swimming, visited the American Girl store, went on a lot of bike rides, and of course, scooter rides.

Sean was getting tired of them by this point.

Safety first.

I thought today would be a good to day to remember the things we have been doing as a family.

Our summer has finally begun. Here's why it's been so crazy.

We are trying to sell our house. And despite a herculean effort by our Realtor - Dustin A Gilbert,

not much is happening besides spending a lot of money fixing up the house that we didn't want to fix up or spend money on. The big project that ate up so much time was roofing. Sean had to squeeze in a major project around his 2 weeks out of town for work and the 1 week at the US Open at Pebble Beach with his dad and brothers.

To our great relief, our home teacher replaced his own roof during the day, then came to our house in the evening to instruct and help Sean repair part of our roof. He also sent over any surplus workers he had helping him - Sean was very....... grateful for any help; Greg and Kevin also came over to help.

Here is the mess in the backyard after we realized that we couldn't just repair the roof but had to strip it and replace it. Poor planning = many nails through the foot, but it's okay, the kids are current on their vaccines.

Emily flew to CO (going out with Grandpa, but coming home all by herself!) to spend a little one on one time with her Grandparents. They took her out to eat, to the movies, to the mountains, shopping. I was glad she was able to go, but I really missed her.

Anna went to soccer camp at BYU; Tuesday through Friday, 8-noon. She had a blast, while the rest of us sat around and watched her, FOR FOUR HOURS FOUR DAYS IN A ROW! I was

ready for that week to be over, but Anna is getting really good. She is also very good at juggling the soccer ball; her record is 14.

We took swimming lessons for 4 weeks. The kids all did well - especially Chase, just ask him about the monkey, airplane, soldier.

Courtney came out for a weekend, the fun sister was in Florida during Courtney's summer vacation, so she was stuck with me. I made her babysit the kids one night, run a bunch of errands with me one day, then go to my in-laws one day. That is probably why she prefers to go to Texas rather than Utah. But we did go to the movies, get her hair cut, eat some great fish tacos and In N Out burgers and stop by Wheeler farm for a short time - I'm not such a bad sister.

There was also a piano camp for the girls. So now, summer has finally begun. We went hiking with the dog, which at the time sounded like a really good idea at the time. We started out all smiles.

At this point we still didn't realize anything was wrong with Rosie, but if you look closely, she is starting to swell.

We had apparently poisoned her with bug spray. I thought I was helping her out by protecting her from the mosquitoes, they were terrible. A little after this picture, she vomited and that was when we realized that her face had swollen up like a mastiff. At the time we didn't know what was going on, it was our first time hiking with her. I ran her down the mountain as fast as I could because I didn't know how Sean was going to carry a dead dog down the mountain. When I got to the bottom we tried calling a vet, but in the Uinta Mountains there is no phone service. By this point, her eyes had swollen shut. She may be a dumb dog, but she is pretty tough, she never even whimpered, every one else was bawling (not Sean, but you didn't really think Sean would cry over a dog did you?) - we really thought something was wrong. We gave her some water, put out a blanket in the car so she could lay down and turned the air conditioner on full blast. By the time we called the vet she looked much better. We took her home, bathed her and the next day she was back to her normal dumb dog self. We love you Rosie.

The next weekend we went camping at Crystal Hot Springs. It was a very public campsite, and a train ran right next to the camp site 3 times during the night, but we still had fun.